Piyush Saxena, is Director of AI/ML at Vanguard, where he leads AI/ML for the Advice & Wealth Management portfolio and heads the firm’s Enterprise AI Center of Excellence — Vanguard’s firm-wide priority for responsible-AI standards, model governance, and large-scale Generative AI testing. Before Vanguard, Piyush was Director of Data Science at Direct Supply, where his patented AI work generated new licensing revenue. He has served as a Research Assistant Professor at Marquette University and Adjunct Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Sciences from Marquette University.